And that’s not just in a fuzzy-wuzzy feeling other people feel sense. It is in the sense that they stop being able to figure when they’ve offended supporters, or when they’ve made serious enemies. This does not lead to long-term success in the potentate business. And, in fact, the researchers note that little re-humanizing now and then, occasionally being reminded of your mortality, is about the only option if you want to keep yourself on the throne.

Of course, us liberal artist types could have the researchers that a long time ago. Something about Pride Goeth Before A Fall…and Remember Caesar, you are mortal springs to mind.

But, still, it is good to have our biases confirmed. And it is nice to know that what we suspected was truth, and that the creatures at the top of the Trump administration…

Really can’t feel the pain of others. And, short of divine retribution…